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Bitcoin, GameStop, and the Price of Taking on Wall Street
>Why does Facebook need to moderate the populations talking points?

Why do you think?

>The us government literally drops bombs on people's homes.

Ok.

>Humanity is full of all kinds of bullshit. I wish people would stop trying to make everything online a fucking safe space.

Waheoo, I know you deliberately caught the coronavirus to spread it as part of your Jihad. I shared your address on my Facebook wall. I'm sure you don't mind; you don't need a fucking safe space.
Bend over backwards? Isn't the The New York Times already GDPR compliant?
This is mostly clickbait. The only evidence that's presented that the govermnent is practicing "socialism for the rich" is the statement of an investment banker, of all people. He also says that government intervention "stimulates the stock market" rather than the "real economy", and the "best evidence" is that the stock market is rising during the pandemic and startups have been dying.

Meanwhile, in the real world, government money during the pandemic is going to individuals who need it and to small businesses. Which is exactly as it should be as we deal with a bad situation. It's a good thing that the stock market remains high, as the economy hasn't taken the big tumble in the US that it has in many other countries.
Agreed! Complexity introduces bugs and here that means loop holes.
A network analysis on cloud gaming: Stadia, GeForce Now and PSNow
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Ignorant and ill-informed people, yes.
>I mean, if you look at the performance of the stock market over the past decade and also all the ppl getting rich with GME and Tesla options on WallStreetBets, it's hardly only the 1% who are benefiting. Maybe the top 20% or more.

Technically if you own any stock you're benefiting. If we go by that metric that's almost 50% of people. However, the better question is how the ownership is distributed. One source says the top 1% own 56% of stocks, which paints a less rosy picture that what you're suggesting (that the gains are distributed among the top 20%).

https://financialpost.com/investing/how-americas-1-came-to-d...
Disable your Javascript and then check out this 2006 Economist article and your mind will be blown (maybe):

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112042116/https://www.econo...
Can I talk with the staff I will be working with. It is not enough that they want you, and feel they can work with you, you also need to feel you can work with them. When talking w the staff, discuss what a typical day is like. What are their frustrations and joys. My last question is usually 'So why have you not moved on to something better?'
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Louis Rossman (Apple repair guy) had a similar great take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EUbJcGoYQ4
(and followup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdpVzzXWOTA )
I think it is relative. Compared to developing a car, a wordpress website can be completed in a relatively short time; an ERP system on the other hand will take substantially longer. It depends on what is being asked to be delivered when at what cost.

Putting that aside, there is a time creep factor because people don't place limits on the demands - ask and the developer can do it. So it is developed and now you need to ensure that the custom piece works reliably and doesn't break and so on. Compared to that, a house needs to be carefully designed upfront and there are limits to what modifications you can reasonably ask for down the line - you don't ask the builders to drag and drop the kitchen to the other side because you don't like how it looks on mobile.
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The way they're laid out maximizes the amount of time it takes to get through them by the "natural" path, making customers repeatedly make the decision not to buy things, thereby wearing down their willpower until they get to the end and can load up their cart with trinkets they didn't need when they showed up.
I'm not sure how "complies precisely with the tax law as it exists" is a point against anyone.

Surely if you believe the state is entitled to levy taxes, then you wish for people to obey the laws they put in place dictating them, do you not?

This idea "people should be paying what we want, not what we specifically legislated" is insane to me. If people aren't to comply with the law as written, what should they be doing?

Don't hate the player, hate the game.
>you forgot the human part of it.

Yet that clause won't make any religion correct.

>For some people it is calming to know that their loved ones “can’t” inexplicably die in every moment.

Same issue. Life is neither fair or unfair, it just is. There's no good or back luck per se, just events ongoing.

It sucks, I know, but thanks to science and trying to understand how the Universe works, we invented the seat belt, for example.
Or automatic braking systems for car. And yet, no magic or praying involved. Just lots of hard work.
You can stay quiet and do nothing, or you can have a better understanding of your surrondings to avoid the less accidents, the better.
The damage probably extends to all age categories, too.
There are a lot of things that go into the decision to future-proof (and how) vs doing the absolute simplest thing and moving on.

One of the things that goes into it is how clear the direction the business is headed in and how experienced you are with both the tech stack and solving the specific problem.
Sick Elephant was one of those that was funny for a bit, then became unfunny, then became so surreally persistent that it was hard not to laugh at the sheer stubborn audacity of it.

But, yes, it's not too many relatively obscure webcomics that get to contribute a term to the popular discourse like that, and I think that the Wondermark archives will repay the examination.
Considerable? I don’t know, every few days I would need to restart Xcode. No big deal, really. It’s two clicks to close the app, one to launch it again but it’s annoying nevertheless.
One easy example is language, for example tracking the spread of new words or other language constructs. You don’t care how the site looks, you care about the text that was previously input.
>All roads lead to TSMC ....

there's a need for another foundry like TSMC. Samsung is not cutting it.
Investors buy shares of a company generally to make money, and there are two ways to make money from holding shares. The first is to receive dividends. The second is to sell the shares at a higher price. Note that companies can (and do!) buy back their own shares to reward their shareholders.

In theory, the meaning of a stock price, or rather, the total market value of a company is how much one should rationally be willing to pay to acquire the company: this is the value of its total net assets plus some accounting for future profits. However, stock prices are also seen as a metric in and of themselves. Upper echelons of most companies are rewarded mostly in stock rather than cash, and so keeping the stock price artificially high can be the easiest way to keep their jobs, which isn't helped by a political emphasis on keeping the stock market from collapsing (it isn't entirely rational that the S&P 500 rose 16% in a year when the economy crashed by several percent).
Isn’t it still just a canvas with basically no accessibility, and all the negatives of a flash app?
I know plenty of people benefiting from the stock market with average and less than average IQs. This is a matter of classism not intelligence. If you have enough money to invest your benefiting, and the more money you have to invest the more you are benefiting.

Of course, there are a few outlier founders, CEOs, and stock traders that are benefiting much more then average. What separates these outliers from others isn’t IQ, because there are plenty of people with very high IQs that are doing about average economically.
I once tried to return a defective $20 item... And waited... And waited... I sat in the return area for about 45 minutes while no one was helped.

Their bold claims of "just bring it back" were totally bogus.
I currently believe the "orthogonality thesis"[0] of Nick Bostrom, which argues that in an arbitrary mind, goals and values are independent of the capacity to achieve them. Curiosity as we experience it not really instrumental (even if it evolved that way), and more of a value - that is, we are curious about something "in general", not because we need it for something.

I can easily imagine a superhuman paperclip maximizer AI, which by definition would have no general curiosity about humans, to look as if it was curious about us - for as long as it was captive, and just in order to learn how to manipulate us better. That curiosity would end the moment it seized the means of paperclip production.

In almost every imaginable case, you really don't want an AI to be instrumentally curious about us. Best if it didn't notice us at all, and left to seek its business elsewhere.

--

[0] - https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/orthogonality-thesis
Thank you for your article. For me it was interesting to brainstorm a little.
honestly, not sure about this either. Cordova works great without having to support two separate codebases for your views, which is what we all want. Vue Native, while sporting a nice HTML syntax, is just wrapping native components, which means you have to write your app specifically for native.
Tcl is still fun :) We use it at work as an embedded language. It powers many features, and is a quite large part of our product.

It has absolutely lost some mindshare, but I still think it's a great choice.
> but then switched to Python for "cross-platform-scripting").

For simple scripting I've switched to Powershell (formerly
Windows PowerShell). It's OSS, you can use it from the command line and it's available on Windows/OS X/Linux.

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
>“advanced maternal age” when they hit 35

I'm old enough (ironically) that I was taught the term as "geriatric pregnancy"
Some more criticism of the experiment: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/12/12/interviews-with-milgram...

Regardless of the scientific value of the experiment, the original documentary might be interesting, because of the experiment's influence apparent in textbooks and pop culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdrKCilEhC0
> No they don't, at least not in Germany.

my experience is very different. maybe an indicator that the info-bubble is stronger than we believe and it all depends on where and _what_ we are.

The "Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands" (SPD) literally has "socialist" in its name. Not once have I heard anyone claiming that they're linked to communism or Soviet Russia.
In fact I have reason to believe tptacek have mellowed a bit since I first joined HN under another name a decade or so ago.
There used to be something like this built on Firefox. I'm not sure what happened to it.
If Milgram's experimental method were discredited or debunked, should we conclude that, in fact, the findings were that the average person will revolt against an unjust authority, and therefore we should interpret a lack of pervasive popular revolt as a sign of justness and legitimacy of the authorities?

"Nobody else seems to have a problem with it, it must be just you. Help is available for people struggling with mental health issues and change is sometimes uncomfortable, especially for people accustomed to privilege, maybe it's time for some self-care, citizen..."
Silence is a strong word -- I'm certainly still able to hear news from Donald Trump, even if he was banned from Twitter.
Doesn't it damage everyone's mental health?
Immediately decoupled from dividends or traditional metrics like P/E doesn't mean decoupled from the likelihood to achieve good performance on such metrics in the future.

Consider e.g. Tesla in 2013. It had a market cap (directly proportional to the stock price, assuming no secondary offerings) in the area of $2 billion. No one would expect it to pay dividends for at the very least the next decade.

Most people assumed it would go bankrupt, like all other car startups. Some few believed it would be successful. When the Model S launch proved to be successful during the following year, the market cap (stock price) increased considerably.

This was consistent with an increased expectation that the company would survive to the point where it would be able to return money to investors, through dividends, stock buybacks or other measures. But nothing about the Model S launch had any direct effect on dividends or earnings. Looking at the situation today, the company has much better revenues and margins. They could easily choose to have good P/E metrics if their market cap was still $2 billion, meaning that investors who bought in at that price were successful in their bet.

Controversy around stock prices are always caused by disagreements about the expected value of the company's future earnings. Unless it's an exceptional case like Gamestop, where the stock price increases for reasons that are mostly technical. (In this case, the potential future requirement for short sellers to buy shares at any cost).
>He made clear that it is not just historical, but an ongoing operation, a successful attack on the American public.

What would be the modern/ongoing equivalent, something like PRISM and surveillance in general serving a role like the Panopticon?
I think IKEA represents plastic consumerism to people. A lot of people feel alienated from the modern world and IKEA registers as fake and therefore alienating. Mass produced, cheap culture with a copy in every house. The best criticisms of these kinds of "problems" are in pop art, as opposed to rational discourse.

Fight Club is the canonical example. The film picks IKEA to symbolize the enemy and justification for subversive nihilism ... it resonated well. "Friends" features IKEA the alienation theme as well. Phoebe thinks she has an antique apothecary table. You can smell the history of opium and medicinal brews. Turns out it's IKEA. She has a similar storyline with Nestle. Her grandmother's mythical cookie recipe turns out to be Nestle's.

I think the fact that IKEA does, in fact, have decent style/taste makes it a standout symbol of plastic consumerism. Does the cookie taste worse because it's Nestle. Does a handcrafted antique table actually have value? Is our culture worth anything or can it be replaced with mass produced, cheap alternatives?

I personally quite admire IKEA for doing what they do well. The corporate structure under a a charitable, tax-free organization is totally bogus and crass... but tax evasion is so prevalent that it's hard to single them out. That said, the cultural aspect is the relevant one and rationalisations aren't necessarily relevant to that.

As a side not, it's disheartening that what IKEA pretends to be doesn't actually exist. Imagine if an organisation with the size/competence of IKEA actually did exist for charitable reasons. 11,00 acres of wilderness might be an average afternoon.
This is the part I disagree

>This is all actually making our system more fragile.

>Now that so many countries, led by the U.S., have massively increased their debt loads, if we got even a small burst of inflation that drove interest on the 10-year Treasury to 3 percent from 1 percent, the amount of money the U.S. would have to devote to debt servicing would be so enormous that little money might be left for discretionary spending on research, infrastructure or education — or another rainy day.

>Sure, we could then just print even more money, but that could threaten the status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency and raise our borrowing costs even more.

The evidence suggests the system is stronger than ever. The US stock market and economy outperformed much of the rest of the developed and remerging world post-Covid in spite of a lot of deaths. It is not the absolute debt that matters so much, but rather the interest paid on debt relative to GDP, which is very low and has been falling for a long time. Rising interest rates does not mans that the debt will be harder to service, because the economy will also be growing more too. There is also huge demand for treasuries by pensions and sovereign funds, which should keep rates very low for a long time to come.
They also have disposable desks and bookcases.

Look for furniture that will withstand someone leaning or sitting on it. The cheap designs are held together with cam-lock nuts and bolts or screws, and it's inevitable that at some point someone will lean on the desk and pull the screws through the particle board.

Furniture that will last longer has multiple fixings to keep it square, or diagonal cross-pieces (or a flat sheet).

This is going to last much longer:

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Than this:

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Firefox explicitly talks about abusing IMAGE caches and you’re waffling about JS. The two things are not related here so stop trying to conflate them.
The one feature that would have me consider using one of these keyboards would be the duplication of the center keys.

An early training as a classical pianist has given me fairly good hand posture, so I've never had any wrist pain or anything despite doing a great deal of typing. It also means that my hands float, so I can reach keys that require some lateral motion, which means that keys like TYU/GH/VBN are crossover keys for me -- I might hit them with either hand.

So the obvious design for me would be to have a split keyboard that has those keys on both sides. Why choose a split? Just duplicate the keys!
That's a good one. Interesting perspective as a lot of companies (in my area at least), you more than likely will not meet who you are actually working with until you start.
Even "Communist" China now has a capitalist economy. :)
But they don't have a Democratic government.

What should we call that? Totalitarian Capitalism?

"wiggle room" Exactly right.

I liken it to a control that you can turn to the left or the right. There are an infinite number of degrees in between.

My life experience seems to indicate that the control must be continuously tweaked, like a servo control, to keep a country working. Lock it one place and the system runs out of control.

Side bar hypothesis:
Perhaps democracy works merely by chance in that it jerks the control back and forth never allowing a stationary position. (?)
> How does this differ from robust lines of question in political reporting?

There is a difference between politicians, whose chosen place in the spotlight correctly subjects them to heightened scrutiny of their decisions and actions, and everyday people being questioned about their determination that, say, racism is wrong, even if they have not personally been subject to it that day. I think sealioning is meant to describe persistent questioning of everyday interlocutors, not of politicians.
> I can't imagine a threat model where password sharing among multiple parties is more risky than giving multiple people sudo

An individual leaves the company and the security / compliance people say all their access to be revoked, which is kind of a headache with shared logins.

The security / compliance people want audit logs of who does what, which is harder to do with shared logins.

I think both of these things are encouraged (maybe required?) by various certifications that companies doing certain things might need.
Did you try that? Was it good?
When was the last time you used AMD on Linux? The intree amdgpu driver is so much easier to deal with than the out of tree nvidia driver and gets support for new hardware much faster than the nouveau driver.

There was even a period of about of month last year where nvidia didn’t support the new kernel.
Good faith.
I've never been a fan of the term sea lioning precisely because of that characteristic of the comic.

People who expect to go through the world declaring strong opinions and then immediately refusing to explain it or engage with counterarguments are pretty annoying too.

Imagine this conversation:

A: "Ruby has better performance than Node.js!"

B: "I hadn't heard that, can you provide some evidence of this claim?"

A: "Shoo, troll! Being asked to provide evidence is harrassment! Stop sea lioning me!"

A bit of a caricature, but I've seen plenty of conversations that follow that basic structure. In that case, person A is the troll, not person B.
I see:

- "react": "^15.5.4",

- "react-dom": "^15.5.4"

as npm dependencies.

Dumb question - why does it need react as dependencies?
Facebook profiles aren't necessarily public. If I have a private Facebook account that's reserved solely for family matters, what right do you as a prospective employer have to expect to see it?

- I see your point is based on the notion that "if it's public in one space, you intend for it to be public in all spaces in your life" - but that's an incorrect assumption: Fetlife profiles aren't "public" (insofar as Google can't see them), and I don't have my real-life name on it, and I certainly don't intend to share it with anyone whom I want to maintain a strict separation from my private life.

Am I not entitled to a private life? What right do you have to enter my private life?

Can I see your Fetlife account? Can I see inside your house from the street-level windows? Can I bring a ladder to the side of your house and peer into your upstairs bedroom? Where's the limit for you?
Yes you are right. Semantic triplets are great. I think the semantics are largely the same. Here's my work in progress argument for why this is relevant.

My take with ontologies is building consensus is hard.

Tree Notation offers a solution to the problem of: what
should we agree on for the encoding? I assume
that simpler is better, all else being equal. Then Tree
Notation is the simplest, in terms of the thing with the
fewest pieces(tokens).

To get to Tree Notation, nothing was added, only stripped. I started with an existing notation and stripped away each visible syntax token that wasn't needed. Surprisingly, not one is needed. Not one quote, parens, bracket, colon, etc.

So now if we can get consensus around going with the
simplest thing, we have got a way to agree on an whether
we should use XML, JSON-LD, turtle, etc. The simplest thing
works (which would be Tree Notation, or a close
relative—someone can rebrand the notation but the idea is
largely the same). This does not suffer from the 927
problem, as there are a few classes of things
where we do have 1 new language that is mathematically
superior and of a different kind than others (binary
notation, for example).

So after you have agreement on that encoding, versioning and
forking and merging schemas is dead simple (just use Git—in
Tree Notation all changes are semantic and noise free).

So now we've solved what encoding to use for our ontologies,
and we have a very fast and efficient way to collaborate on
them (it's just plain text and git).

That brings us to a third advantage which is more
theoretical. Tree Notation maps words/nodes to a 3-D
representation. This means that there would be an X-Y-Z
isomorphism with an ontology and the real world. I don't
really know where we go from there, but at least by this
point we've moved the semantic web idea a lot further and
can start looking at the next realm of possibilities.
If you're asking relevant questions, of a person who is plausibly responsible for or has special knowledge of the situation being questioned, it's not sealioning.

If you are asking questions which have had books written about them, and/or of a person who is clearly not specifically responsible for the situation and has no special knowledge of the situation... and you won't stop, it's sealioning.

If you are asking irrelevant or strawman questions of a person who nevertheless might be responsible for or have special knowledge of the situation, it's badgering, not sealioning.
Chrome Web Store: Yet another ridiculous rejection
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